A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and the leading provider of private label hosted software services including hosted Exchange Server 2007, hosted SharePoint Services v3.0, and hosted Dynamics CRM, groupSPARK, today announced that Ravi Agarwal, groupSPARK senior executive officer, will be speaking at the ISPCon Spring 2008 conference and trade show.

From May 13-15, 2008, ISPCon Spring 2008 will be held at the Donald E. Stephens (Rosemont) Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois. Including ISPs, webhosting providers, VoIP providers and numerous other internet industry professionals, the event brings together 2500+ internet industry professionals to discuss all facets of internet business including ways to increase revenue and develop new business opportunities.

groupSPARK senior executive officer, Ravi Agarwal, will speak to attendees on Thursday, May 15, 2008 on ways for ISPs and the service provider community to successfully compete in the expanding hosted services arena. Regarding Microsoft's decision to enter the market with their own hosted services offerings, his presentation titled SaaS vs. Software + Service: How You Can Survive Microsoft's Entry into the Hosted Services Market, will speak to the trepidation now felt by resellers of hosted services worldwide. Offering strategies resellers can employ to stand apart from the competition and provide value added products and services to their small and mid-size business customers, Mr. Agarwal will address the explosive growth in the market.

To offer a full breadth of private label hosted software services through their reseller channel to SMBs who would otherwise be unable to deploy the applications in-house due to their significant cost, is one of the ways that groupSPARK continues to thrive in a competitive market. Services include hosted Exchange Server 2007, hosted SharePoint Services 3.0, and hosted Dynamics CRM as well as 2-way wireless synchronization with BlackBerry Enterprise Server®, Windows Mobile and Good Mobile Messaging. Live 24 x 7 technical support via phone, email and online chat which is staffed by experts based in the United States is also offered by groupSPARK.